(CNN)– U.S. minorities now represent more than half of America's population under the age of 1, the Census Bureau said, a historic demographic milestone with profound political, economic and social implications.

The bureau - defining a minority as anyone who is not "single race white" and "not Hispanic" - released estimates on Thursday showing that 50.4% of children younger than 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011, up from 49.5% from the 2010 Census taken in April 2010.

"2011 is the first time the population of infants under age 1 is majority minority," said Robert Bernstein, a Census Bureau spokesman.

The latest statistics - which also count the national population younger than 5 as 49.7% minority in 2011, an increase from 49% in 2010 - portend a future of a more racially diverse America, with new and growing populations playing more important roles politically and economically in years to come, analysts say.

Like other analysts, Kenneth M. Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey Institute and professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, isn't surprised at the trend.

"We've known it was going to come, but the question was what year the "crossover point" would happen, he said.

"Little children are in the vanguard of all this change coming to America." he said.

Johnson sees the trend as an opportunity for more Americans to embrace diversity. More children are going to be exposed to a more diverse group of classmates, and that will affect attitudes and outlook.

The changes are going to be felt first in hospitals, as well as schools, where an increasingly diverse child population has to be absorbed. Hospitals would need interpreters and translators, for example, Johnson said. English as a second language would be an educational priority.

While many regions such as Atlanta have a diverse population, other regions lack racial and ethnic variety and will have to deal with a new kind of population, he said. In declining rural counties, he said, an influx of groups like Hispanics would serve to renew communities and changes would ensue.

"For a country that's aging, we need young workers, and the growth of the minority population will contribute to the size of the young adult workforce," he said. "This is breathing new life into the United States."

Jeff Passell, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center, called the Census numbers "a cumulative effect of 35 to 40 years of immigration" bringing large numbers of Latinos, Asians and other immigrants into the United States.

He said the Hispanic population in particular is very young, much more concentrated in child-bearing years, and has a higher fertility rate than the white, non-Hispanic population. Lately, he says, there are a lot more births among native Hispanics in the United States than new Hispanic immigrants, a "cumulative effect" of immigration.

If the trend continues, Passell says several decades from now, possibly in the late 2030s or early 2040s, the U.S. population will become less than 50% non-Hispanic white.

"This is a trend that we can reasonably expect to continue. The factors that determine this have been set into motion, and in demography things tend to change gradually," he said.

There were 114 million minorities in 2011, or 36.6% of the U.S. population, a bump of half a percentage point from 2010. The latest figures count Hispanics as the most populous and fastest growing minority group.

They numbered 52 million in 2011, and their population grew by 3.1% since 2010. The U.S. Hispanic population grew from 16.3% in 2010 to 16.7% in 2011.

"California had the largest Hispanic population of any state on July 1, 2011 (14.4 million), as well as the largest numeric increase within the Hispanic population since April 1, 2010, (346,000)," the Census said.

"New Mexico had the highest percentage of Hispanics at 46.7%. Los Angeles had the largest Hispanic population of any county (4.8 million) in 2011 and the largest numeric increase since 2010 (73,000). Starr County - on the Mexican border in Texas - had the highest share of Hispanics (95.6 percent)."

Asians numbered 18.2 million nationally in 2011, making them the second fastest-growing minority group - up by 3% since 2010. Figures show that California had the largest Asian population of any state at 5.8 million and the largest increase since 2010 at 131,000.

"Hawaii is our nation's only majority-Asian state, with people of this group comprising 57.1% of the total population. Los Angeles had the largest Asian population of any county (1.6 million) in 2011, and also the largest numeric increase (16,000) since 2010. At 61.2%, Honolulu had the highest percentage of Asians in the nation," the Census said.

African-Americans are the second largest minority group in the United States at 43.9 million in 2011, an increase of 1.6% from 2010. New York has the largest black population of any state with 3.7 million and Texas has the largest increase from 2010 of 84,000. Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago, has the largest black population of any county at 1.3 million. Fulton County, Georgia, which includes Atlanta, has the largest increase since 2010 at 13,000.

The District of Columbia has the highest percentage of blacks at 52.2%. Mississippi has the second-largest at 38%.

America's native population - labeled "American Indian and Alaska Native population" by the Census - was about 6.3 million in 2011, up 2.1% from 2010. California had the largest such population at 1,050,000 and the largest increase at 23,000. Alaska had the highest share at 19%. Los Angeles had the largest such population of any county, with 231,000, and the largest increase, 9,000 since 2010.

The population classified as "Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander" was 1.4 million in 2011, up 2.9% since 2010. Hawaii had the largest such population of any state at 359,000 and the highest percentage at 26.1. California had the largest increase since 2010 at 9,000. Honolulu has the largest population of any county at 235,000. Los Angeles County had the largest increase since 2011 at 2,700.

Of single race non-Hispanic whites, California had the largest population at 15 million. Texas had the largest increase since 2010 at 80,000. Maine had the highest percentage of the non-Hispanic white alone population, 94.3 percent.

Four states and the District of Columbia have predominantly minority populations, Hawaii, at 77%, the District of Columbia at 64.7%, California, at 60.3%, New Mexico, at 59.8%, and Texas, at 55.2%. Minorities comprised the majority population in 11% of the nation's 3,143 counties.

Michael White, professor of sociology at Brown University, said the rise of minorities fits into a longer-term evolution of the U.S. population, a mosaic that has been adapting to ethnic change since the first Census was recorded in 1790. There have been many groups represented over time, from enslaved and indigenous peoples, those of European stock, and now to a population reflecting the wider world - truly a "melting pot," he said.

White says it's hard to say how the changes will affect politics and that one can't assume that ethnic patterns will determine voting patterns. Local economic issues, for example, will evolve differently in different states and cities, and there are economic benefits of having a younger population, he said.

"The political dimensions will play out differently," he said. And by the time the babies are old enough to cast ballots, "the United States will be a different place when they are walking into a voting booth."

William Frey, Brookings Institution demographer, sees political challenges for new immigrants and an economy benefiting from their presence. Many Hispanics and Asians are too young to vote or can't cast ballots because they haven't become citizens.

"It's going to take perhaps awhile before the younger people get more engaged in politics. They do have an impact in some places, like swing states, such as Nevada, Colorado and Florida. They can make a difference," he said.

He, too, says that newcomers to the United States bring an energy that invigorates the economic system and an older society.

"I think we're going to just see that the younger part of the population will have a different vibe," he said. "They are sort of needed to help our youthful image and to add to that vitality. They will bring a dimension and element we sorely need."

Your greatest enemy is always those that look just like you not the "others". I am a lot more scared of a white banker from Wall St or a white Republican politician from the South than I am of any minority.

The US has one of the dumbest, racist Governments on the planet. Hispanic is NOT a race. It's like calling all people from the US one race. What is up with the hatred for "white" people and the English language? How does that divisive none sense make our country better?

What race are people from India and all the ME countries? yup, also Caucasian. They are also just a darker shade. The US Gov is full of racist dummies who for whatever reason, enjoy spreading divisive lies.

I'm not white... I'm Celtic American (as opposed to Mediteranean American, or Eastern European American), and since I'm now a minority, does this mean I get to enjoy the benefits of all affirmative action programs?

Multiculturalism and diversity pushing are forms of subtle racism. This is so because multiculturalism seeks to strip people of their individuality, and mandate that they must conform to the, "norms," of a group. Perfect example. I have a friend who is of Puerto Rican descent, and has a Spanish sounding last name. Other Hispanic people always assume he speaks Spanish. He does not. He actually speaks fluent Russian, because that's what is best for his desired line of work. Yet other Hispanic people look down on him and see him as disrespecting his heritage. He considers himself American, and that's good enough for him. Yet, because of multiculturalism, society has decided he must speak Spanish. Multiculturalism=Racism.

So the DOJ refused to prosecute the Black Panthers in the 2008 voter intimidation case b/c whites are not covered by voter laws. So now does this mean that whites will be now covered and blacks will not.

WHICH PART of that post was a lie? If you assert that someone is lying, it really helps to actually SAY what they're lying about, doesn't it? You know, you actually have to try to DISPROVE someone's point when you are arguing against it, rather than just calling it a "lie." Man, you need to go back to high school and learn how to debate.

Whites still hold the Majority we are just smart why have kids in a time where jobs are scarce, gas is to high and food prices are on the rise.. Makes no sense to bring a kid into the world to live on wel fare and rely on medicaid for support. Not Being Racist just pointing out most white people see living off the tax payer and our country is a sign of weakness. Besides that they did not add that 4% of whites are leaving the country every year and they say that number may double to 8% by 2015. The country is falling down a hill took us 150 years to make it took the corrupt less then 65 to destroy it. Oh well the white race is on the decline I heard we are evil and bigots and racists anyways..no one cares about white people and they never will.

And how is what I said racist? Please Steven hawking tell me in your robot voice where I was being racist. Your a Troll nothing more I have seen you comment on every persons post. You must be so proud with all your time off trolling a board... Your American contribution is well deserved sir....good job troll.

Are you saying that most African Americans are mentally ill? If not, why are you comparing these relatively normal African Americans to what a few psychos did? Shouldn't you have higher standards for your people?

worst is, the adults in that room at the end are all laughing and having a great time, after seeing those kids beat the po op out of each other. one girls was almost stripped. Sad. (video should be censored. I saw a boobie)

honestly Freddie, life's too short to be so hateful. The fact is there are dumb people in every group, however you want to divide them...by "race", ethnicity, country, religion. Get over it and try to look for some positive. It must suck being a negative sarcastic person.

Every group has its degenerate garbage people. The sad truth is there's far more black garbage than white garbage or Asian-American garbage. Is it racist to say that black commits disproportionate amounts of crime, are disproportionately under-educated, have disproportionate numbers of out-of-wedlock babies? Oh... wait... I guess this can't be racist... study after study have provided these facts for decades.

Also consider that fewer and fewer of our young people have a problem with marrying a person of another race...and the children of these unions are multi or bi-racial. No less American than anyone else born here. It's time to get over it.

Be nice to people. Work as hard as you can. Don't judge.
Whites are NOT native to North America. Never have been. The mass immigration here was a desperate move by Europeans seeking asylum for all kinds of reasons. So – to flinch at the thought of a "mixed society" makes no sense.
In truth, North American Whites lag other nations in education and invention. Why are we so darn scared of everything?!
Fear = Losing

Have you driven a Yugo lately? Or how about some of that Chinese cough syrup.
For the past 200 yeas AMERICANs have been at the forefront of education, invention and technology.
Now we simply use the other countries for slave labor.

Americans have certainly been on the forefront of all these things...but, we are not the ONLY ones. Also consider...Americans...these innovators and inventors....include people of color as well as immigrants to this great land.

You moron. The only thing that is important is what skills, work ethic, and personality the person has not where they are from. The tragedy in this world is there very well could be the next Einstein in Somalia but he will die tomorrow of malaria in a dirt hut.

no, it never was really looked into...fox covered it because they cover ALL stories...UNLIKE the other trash propaganda news you mentioned....msnbc, and the nytimes had it as backpage news...but more importantly, the new tapes reveal so much that was never properly investigated before...

open your mind jboy...have a listen to the tapes...might do you some good.

Fox News covered up Rev. Wright? That stuff was FRONT PAGE. Every conservative blogger on every article about Obama on every news site spammed it to death. Dude you have no recollection of something that happened 3 years ago.

The only thing that didn't happen was that McCain didn't use it directly in political ads financed from his campaign.

I hope the Aryan supremacist folks posting comments here will refuse to be treated by a paramedic who is Asian or seen by a trauma surgeon who is Indian, and that they will refuse to have a black firefighter save their house from burning down, and that they will take their kids out of any school that has teachers named Garcia, Martinez, or Rodriguez. I hope they won't patronize a bank with a teller who is Cherokee, or buy food from a restaurant whose owner is Thai or Sikh. I really wish you would just stop allowing people of different races to do anything for you. Go ahead. I double dog dare you to put your money (your life, and your children) where your mouth is. If you are so taken advantage of by everybody who is non-white, and if they are all inferior to you, then stop voluntarily dealing with them.

Basically, white children will have a similar experience to children of other races in this country. They will start to feel what all of the other kids have always felt. If simply not being the majority gives you pause, just think how it feels to be a true minority. Maybe that feeling won't be so difficult when we are all in the same boat.

Article says "English as a second language would be an educational priority." is just not possible by any means. Non White Population may be on rise but the White population is not on declinne there is a huge gap in numbers between the two groups. Non Whites(Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, South East Asians, rest of the world ) do not speak one langauge formula so English is not under threat here. All non white kids in US speak English. There was a similar article in UK couole of years back claiming The non white population will super exceed the White population in coming years and that did not happend/is not happening. White population is not on decline, they are doing very well witht heir numbers and the Non White population is growing but not alarming.

How ridiculous to say that all white kids speak English! I am sure there are some white kids who are children of immigrants from other countries (probably Europe, but possibly elsewhere) who do not speak English as a primary language. Likewise, plenty of children of color *do* speak English as a primary language, as their parents were born here.

Holy cow there's a lot of idiots on this board. Like it or not, our descendants will eventually all look like Tiger Woods and Halle Berry. It's strange how some people think the majority will ALWAYS be the majority and things will be as they are forever. Someday, if we we survive that long, race will be as irrelevant to society has hair and eye color and height. Of course, most of these people don't believe in evolution either, so of course they're freaked out.

HISPANICS ARE THE ONLY BY LAND U.S.A.ALIED IN THE NEW MILLENIUM NUCLEAR WAR ARMAMENTIS BUT WEALTHY PAYED COMMERCIALS FROM OVERSEAS PAY T.V.AND NEWSPAPERS TO BRAINWASH AMERICANS TO BECOME CORPORATE EMPLOYEES TO WASTE THEIR LIFE DOING AND LEARNING NOTHING FOR THEIR DAY TO BE FIRED AND TERMINATED CONTRIBUTING NOTHING TO THEIR RETIREMENT WITHOUT BENEFITS AND RIPOFF BY ALL THEIR UNPAID BILLS.

My dad is a terrible bigot and always has been. But even he had this to say (begrudgingly) about the Hispanic population. "They come here and take the jobs the white people don't want and they all share living quarters with other Hispanics while saving to bring the rest of their families here. On the average they work hard and they love their kids and take good care of them. They might be poor, but they aren't afraid of getting their hands dirty. It might take a few generations, but they're going to over take us simply because they don't see themselves as above hard work."

I'm hesitant to speak in generalities about any population, but I can speak to the misconception that all Hispanics come here for is our public assistance. That's simply a myth put out by those who need a scapegoat for the trouble our country is in. The fact of the matter is–only 17% of the total population of Hispanics are on public assistance, while 38% of Caucasians are.

While there are illegal immigrants and, yes, there are a lot of them, the majority of the Hispanics who are here are legal immigrants and for what it's worth–the number of illegal Hispanic immigrants IS dropping–in part because of the economy and in part because of stiffer laws being put into place to prevent hiring them.

And for a few other reasons, for instance the Mexican economy is showing some modest signs of growth and the tremendous drug violence by the border. Relatively little of it is actually due to harsher immigration laws

@Jason, people on Social Security and Medicare are not on public assistance. Those programs are funded by taxes you paid. Using your l;ogic, people receiving money from a 401k are on public assistance. And it is 38% of the people receiving public assistance and not 38% of.

While I agree with you that many of the immigrants who come here are hard-working and not afraid to get their hand "dirty" with manual labor jobs, I do disagree with you that most are legal immigrants. This country has nearly 50 million illegal immigrants. Most do not pay any taxes (they also get underpaid since they're paid off the books), yet their children who are born here still need to be educated in the public school system. Because of this unbalance between children who need to be educated and parents who don't pay taxes, we have a deficit in spending for education. The easiest solution to me would be to give all illegal immigrants an amnesty period to register with INS and become U.S. citizens. That way they would have equal rights and pay, but also pay their fair share of taxes. If they want to be here for the "pursuit of happiness" then let's give them a fair chance, especially their children.

Hispanics do not take the jobs US citizens refuse to do. That is a myth. What jobs have gone undone because US citizens would not do them? None! The difference is that employers do not have to pay benefits to an illegal immigrant, thus, saving them tons of money. They do not pay benefits, retirement, etc. THAT is why they come here illegally, not to take jobs no one else will do.

I do not understand all of the negative xenophobic and anglocentric comments here. This is not an article about immigration or people coming to leach off of welfare systems, this is simply an article about demographic changes. For some time now the populations in Central and South America have been growing faster than the population in the U.S, as I am sure everyone knows the population in Asia has been skyrocketing and Africa has also seen substantial growth. Europe and the U.S have not though. This means that even with a constant amount of immigration the proportion of immigrants will slowly start to shift the balance away from Caucasian. Also whenever in history one nation has been doing better economically than another, people from the poorer come to the richer to work, this is a trend going back to the formation of countries themselves, and it is not about people leaching off of America and refusing to work. I welcome the demographic shift, if this changes anything it will change Americans' views to other races and build a more tolerant society.

Um not really...Americans and Europeans are choosing to have less children because of concerns over resources which are growing smaller by the day and for finacial reasons given the state of the global economy. Also Africa's population is far from booming since aids and hiv is ripping the continent apart. Asia's population is growing but China and India's population is growing older and may experiance a population decline. The problem with developing nations with high birth rates is that many of them cannot afford to take care of their people despite what you hear in the media life in central and South America is far from rosey.

It's called scapegoating–everybody has one–even white people–their blame of choice are blacks –even if no blacks are around, they will deposit collective blame on them–even for personal their lack of advancement/achievement.

Typical amnesiac. You think for some reason that stating a FACT is not accepting responsibility? I know that's what a lot of republicans want to do, but many americans have not at all forgotten. Reminding everyone that Obama inheritted a recession is a fact, not blame. When you can't prove that someone stole your car, but have a hunch, then you can blame them for it.

If it's been proven through facts that they stole your car, then it's no longer blame, it's the TRUTH! That's the difference. We can most certinly prove that POTUS Obama inheritted a recession from the republicans. He wasn't handed a patient with an ankle sprain. He was handed a patient with a gunshot wound to the heart. Huge difference.

So yes, Obama is responsible for the country as POTUS. But he was not responsible for the massive sink hole that was dropped in his lap when he took office, that he stated many times would not be fixed over night.

Go ahead, keep thinking everyone is stupid with amnesia. We didn't forget what mess the GOP left this country in to be cleaned up.

who has amnesia???...the economy wasd coming around in 2006 when the dems won the congress and started blocking every piece of legislation...it was the dem controlled house led by pelosi that began the insane obstruction that crippled the economy. you blame congress now that its republican, but you forget how obstructionist congress was under the dems in 2006-08. the dems are wicked hypocrites.

Leave, then. But when you do, you'll realize there's nothing Socialist about this nation at all. The problem isn't the liberals right now-it's that conservatives like yourself are heading further and further to the right, and that is warping your view of the rest of the nation.

The Tea Baggers and the Evangelicals/Fundamentalists are pushing the GOP and conservatism into territory it's never been to before-that of a party that is becoming so ultra conservative that, if it doesn't change, it will consign itself to political irrelevance in the next two decades.

Public Enemy's album said it best: "Fear Of A Black Planet". Some of you people are pathetic. You come out talking about people of color as if they're animals and not on your level as a human being. Then when a person of color defends theselves for being insulted solely based upon race, then you have the audacity to call them racist!

It's actually sad and hysterical at the same time, because there's only 1 type of blood: human. And some of you that are caucasian are actually starting to get nervous that in the not soo distant future, you might have to experience what people of color have been subjected to all their lives in the U.S. !

I can see from your comments and reactions, it kind of makes some of you nervous to know that you won't be in control anymore after awhile.

You're an idiot. "A+" and "O" are blood types, not racial categories. I'm black and have A+ blood – along with roughly 64% of the population. Saying that people have different blood types is not the same as saying people of different races are fundamentally separate and incompatible. Ignorant, degenerate people like you simply use this analogy (unsuccessfully) to perpetuate your message of hate and "ethnic purity"

Regardless as to whether it's A or O type, it's not White "A" type and a Latino "A" type. That's the point. Blood is blood. And if you're to ignornat to understand that, then you don't deserve the medical attention in an emergency if your life depended upon additional blood.

That's just completely moronic for you to even think and live that way.

Wrong. Type O Blood is the original blood type of human beings. It can be used in any transfusions of any other blood type if another blood type isn't available. When early humans started to migrate from Africa, the birthplace of the human species, to other places, environmental pressures that include the types of climate, food, etc. came into play in the changing of blood types. First O, then came A, then came B, then came AB. The tracers found in the blood of ALL people have scientifically been proven to orignate from our original ancestors in Africa. So, color is only skin deep.

Yes actually, I would like to live in parts of the continent of Africa, because there are a lot of them that are doing WAY better than you in WI, or me in Philadelphia. of course you would never know it looking at U.S. tv, because they only show you the worst representation of coutnries in Africa.

Put it this way; if I lived in France, nd the only images I EVER saw of America were from the worst ghettos in Los Angeles, or the toughest projects in NJ & NY, or the poorest Mississippi delta regions in the U.S., then I wouldn't want to come here either!

But I personally KNOW people that are from different countries of Africa that have masnions, everyone in their neighborhood driving BMWs, and their kids in the best private schools. When they travel their luggage is all Gucci, L.V. bags.

Why do you think the U.S. and the Britains have always been on the continent of Africa? It has the richest resource of diamond mines in the world. Educate yourself.

Most elementary school teachers nowadays are communists who have been brainwashed by the Chinese to teach the kids that all races are equal so that China can more easily conquer us in a few years. None of this race-mixing hype is an accident. It is intended to weaken us so that China can take over. Watch and see.

This is one reason why so many conservatives are becoming angrier and angrier. They are witnessing the slow end of 400 years of white dominance in America, and they don't like it. It's why there is so much rage on the right-the mostly white conservative population is scared to death of being a minority, and perhaps (although I think foolishly) believing that their sins of the past in the way whites treated blacks and Native Amreicans may come back to visit them.

Secondly, a few months ago, Stone-Age Rick Santourm lamented that there are not enough babies being born in the U.S. He'll never admit it, but what he really was saying is that there aren't enough White babies being born. He, too, is frightened of a future where the white race is no longer dominant.

Note: I am white, but unlike the people I have mentioned, I have no fear of such a future. It can't be stopped, any more than the sun can be stopped from rising and setting.

You are soo right, and truthful. As an AA, I say to you, i wish there were more level headed americns as yourself in our society. The fact that whenever you look at tv, NO ONE is ever a racist. But when you visit online in a forum, all of the "closet" racist come out, knowing they can hide.

So how do some people think that makes us minorities feel everyday? We're not crazy in saying racism exists; it's just that we know tht not enough people like you Rip are man or woman enough to admit who they really are.

It's not a lie at all. The truth is that white births no longer top 50% in this nation. That is a fact. It was predicted a decade ago that in 2012, white births would go below 50% in the United States. What this further means is that around 2042, whites, like myself, will be below 50% of the population in the United States. On a planet where white people are a clear minority, this was bound to happen sooner or later.

And it's a key reason why there's so much rage and fear among conservatives. It comes at a time when a black man became president, and his election is a harbinger of a future where whites will have less and less economic and political clout. Seems conservative s fear that future. I certainly don't.

If you want to see what the new demographics will mean, look at Mexico. Whites are a minority there, but they still have all the money and power The fact that they're not seen as a "white nation" doesn't matter. It actually hides the discrimination. They're still relatively rich and probably better off than their counterparts in the US. The demographics only magnify the tendency to form into ethnic castes.

It's not the society I would choose if it was my choice. Since it's not, I'll adapt and work it to my advantage.

"And I saw around the throne of God in Heaven, people from every race and tribe on earth, praising and singing to the Lamb that was slain, but now ruling, redeemed, forgiven, and experiencing eternal life"-Rev. 21.

"It is God's will that younger women and widows marry, bear children, and be excellent soccer mom' and faithful wives"-I Tim. 5:14.

This is what the Founding Fathers envisioned. America, the melting pot of all people. There should be no fear of what we all knew was destined to happen. That's why we live in the greatest country in the world. Embrace your future. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

mmmmmMMM,,,,,WHEN YOU GET WELFARE TO NOT WORK,IT BREAKES THE ECONOMY AND LEAD ALL TO WAR OVERSEAS BY CORRPORATIONS WEALTHY FIRMS TO OVERSEAS IMPOSING U.S.LAW MAKERS TO RULE OVER ALL AMERICANS LEGAL AND ILLIGAL TO BE JUDGE BY THEIR ACCTIONS BY IMPUNITY AND NO MERCY INTO U.S.PRISIONS,PROGRAMS AND ALL TO BECOME HOMELESS AND DISCRIMINATED ! SO WORK,DO NOT TAKE FREEBIES AND IF YOU DO THEN DONT COMPLAIN ABOUT WASTING YOUR LIFE WHEN BENEFITS AND FREEBIES ARE TERMINATED .

Just look at this as being "The New World Order", unless you're a billionaire, if not it won't make any difference what color you are. So for those who want to use your race as a superiority complex, forget it because it will serve you well to get busy making money and I means lots of money and you're not going to make it on hate, it won't increase your bank account.

Because "brown skin" is not natural to them–what people do not have, they envy and what they envy they often fear and hate. that goes for big lips and butts and that dancing/singing/sports stuff too. LOL

We seriously need a new way to categorize ethnicities, or maybe get rid of the whole thing it is inaccurate and it's categories as generalized and exclusive of many... For example, Hispanics consists of a vast veriaty of folks from different countries and races, some are white, some are African decent others are indigenous and many a mix of multiple races, so they are a linguistic group not a racial group or even one ethinicity ( think the difference between a Dominican person and an Argentinian person) and then on the other hand the census has no clear category for people of middle eastern and north African background, if Hispanics are jumbled together as one race because they share linguistic and some cultural commonality then why the same is not applied to middle easteners? After all there are white middle easteners and black middle easteners etc...maybe I'm missing something here but the whole thing just doesn't make sense to me and seems to be out dated and at time counter productive

Yes there are more whites on welfare than any other race. HOWEVER, perhaps you should do some more research before posting on here: blacks have the highest of their population on welfare and its not even close. Whites make up more of the population and therefore have more people that could be on welfare. But if 10% of the white population is on welfare and 25% of the black population is on welfare, which one do you think is worse? the 10% or the 25% Everyone knows who is mouching off the country more

75% of the people on welfare are white and welfare cuts off payments after 2 kids–get your facts straight–if you cut off the welfare, it is a fair bet that you ruin the majority of the white demographic still capable of breeding.

It is so sad that many so called "Americans" still think of minority as poor on welfare and ignorant. Well wake up we are Doctor's, lawyers, Social worker, Ph.D's and yes we live next door own our own homes, pay bills, taxes. As a DSS worker most of my clients are NOT minorities. READ, get statistics and don't breed hate as the person you are talking about might down size you. BECAUSE of their 4.0 GPA not a welfare to work scenario.

has anyone been in a grocery store in America and seen a minority get repeatedly ignored while others are being helped? (I've stood in lines where the hold up was an old person or a person with a lot of kids and her coupons not in order–usually a white person)

No, T-Jill. It is usually a checker who can't make change for a customer even though the system is telling them it's "change back of $4.37". The poor checker can't count money – likely due to a poor educational experience.

R U serious who do you teach the KKK? Blacks purchase food, pay bills and taxes. I really hope you are not in a public school system and I am so Blessed to know that my Black child is in a private school!

Yea..Lets have a Presidential order commanding all the trailer courts of America to step up production...I mean after watching Jerry Springer a few times I was sure us whites were keeping up but mass media has let me down again. Ohhh the horror of it all...

We all know that is was the poor Europeans and Africans who built this country's greatness not the johnny-come-lately Hispanics who want to steal what they had no hand in creating. Secure our borders and stand up for America the way Arizona is doing. God bless Arizona.

KNOW your history–the first slaves in the Carribean, South America and America were the Native Americans. Mexicans are a blend of native American and European and actually began that "building up of America FIRST" Before there was even a Plymouth colony, the Southwest including California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona had settlements and missions ALL built by people descended from Native Americans and Europeans COMBINED ergo Mexicans.

When Indian slaves could not survive the diseases, and insects and hard work in the Carribean and the Americas only then, were African slaves brought in to do the jobs. Both Native American and Asian Indians were shipped in to slave for the colonies in South America and the Carribean as early as the 1500 abd 1600s–about the time the pilgrims were setting sail to the New World.

Its really really sad. That after all this time, after all of our advances in sciences etc. All we can still do is argue about who's shade is better. We have the same body parts, same blood. All created with a soul, given life from God. All called gods children. Called his own. Its sad when you can't see the person. You're minds have been populated by the media always throwing differences in your face. So you grow and learn to fear someone because they are of a difference color, difference region, different religion. You populate your kids minds with this garbage and they grow up to be just like you. I'm black and when i look at a white person i understand we are different. God made our differences and he did it so we can learn to get along, so we can "choose" to get along. When i look at an Asian, White, Brown, heck even a blue person if there is one. I just have love for them. Even though there are bad maybe in their culture well....who doesn't. Look back in history and see the wrongs we have all done to each other. Even animals behave better than us, i'm starting to think they have more brains. Its sad, disgusting. You live you're life, amass money and knowledge, you attend the best schools. You then in your pride think you are RICH, you think you have accomplished so much. Yet you are sooo poor. The only true wealth is found in the heart and the only true accomplishment is knowing God. All this yet we can't learn to love each other and just get along. We build walls in our hearts, take one cultures "bad" and magnify it. We have billions of ugly souls in all races people. Don't be ignorant. We spend so much time being entertained by the media, our children are educated through Jersey Shore. Please people wake up. At the end you will only one person to answer to and thats God. He will ask you why you had so much hate for your fellow brother and fellow sister. He will ask you why the poor begged you for food but didn't let him in. My heart really goes out for alot of you. What a sad sad sad existence to live and die with such hate and ignorance for each other. Lets all get rich in heart. Its the only richness there trully is. God bless all of you. Whether you believe in one or care less.

Racial information means this day and age. Socio-economic status is what's important. It is well-known that low-income people are having more babies at younger ages than middle class people. This effectively shrinks the middle class.

Actually Jake it's because fewer Caucasians are choosing to have children at all. The number of childless couples in our nation are on the rise, just like Europe, and particularly France where they're in such trouble that the government is paying women to have children. Hispanics, as a culture, value families and encourage their young people to have big families for reasons that have nothing to do with public assistance. They do the same in their native countries. And–fyi, only 17% of Hispanics living the US actually rely on public assistance vs Whites with a whopping 38%.

Hispanics like most Agrarian based cultures have large families for very pragmatic reasons:

1. the more children born, the more can help out in the fields or by getting jobs and taking care of the family unit
2. Large numbers of offspring offset loss of children due to famine, disease or other factors

ALL groups behave in this way to even the odds of a poor lifestyle.

Whites are not having kids because many are infertile, a recent study (2010) showed that the motility and sperm count of white males was decreasing at an alarming rate and white females outnumber all other races combined in the amount adopting children and seeking infertility treatments. It is more than just choice–if it was not, there would be plenty of white children to adopt or people would have their own–they are not adopting other race babies due to altruism–they are adopting them now–due mostly to shortages in desired offspring.

LOL–somebody better get to googling information–the articles can be found on CBS and also probably on CNN–going sterile–deny it til you are down to a handful then we can talk, and BTW–when did I say I was black?

Black people are always complaining. But look around. White people brought you out of Africa, the toilet of the world, to America, the most prosperous nation ever. I think black people should be thankful and stop complaining. They should thank every white person they see and shine their shoes too.

I think it's amazing that you gloss over the whole slavery, whippings and murder thing. Blacks had to fight for their freedom from oppression. Don't act like whites did such a wonderful thing by enslaving other people.

Lincoln owned slaves in Illinois a FREE state? Stop the revisionist crapola. LIncoln never own slaves but he did not free them until he learned Britain was getting into the war and to stop them he decreed the freeing of the slaves knowing that as a country who had renounced slavery, England could not enter the war on the side of the South when they were depicted as slave owners.

Many Native Americans and the French also fought in the Civil war (as some slaves did also) for BOTH sides.

Hold it there with the Africa comment... Did you know that most of the new top hot economies are in Africa... Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, South Africa, Ethiopia. That is one of the problems with the Western world..., the assumption of continued supremacy. You can read the comments on this board and see that White people feel that the are superior. The comments I am reading are based on some pretty skewed facts.

That's right! One day the West will wake up out of its superiority complex to find out the rest of the world, AFRICA in particular have SURPASSED them. Ha! To that list add Kenya with billions worth of OIL recently discovered. Even mozambique recently discovered potentially one of the world's largest natural gas deposits. Billions worth of Gold in Haiti and the list goes on. Almost every black country seems to have precious minerals and oil. Europe is on its way out. Meanwhile, Africans are working hard and their students are as ambitious as ever. Africa BAILS OUT the west yet again as it has always done throughout history. Watch this space!!

yes, and you whites should thank us for those hundreds of years of free labor, to give you a world wide competative egde, so I will say thank you for bringing us to america, it provide our decendants an opportunity for a better life, but please make sure we have all the opportunities without your interference to it and thank us for our work to make this country great oh and we did it together i will not dismiss your part in making america great either

Funny you should always say that–when the minorities look around they see that mostly white people are ALWAYS complaining and ALWAYS pointing fingers and saying the race card is being played when they are the group who keeps bringing up race and black is not a race it is a color.

Whites did not bring me from Africa–my family was here for thousands of years on one side and at least 400 years on the other side–If you did not bring anyone over in the last 30 years then just like you take no responsibility for a past when you were not alive that had to do with slavery then you can take no responsibility for that same past to pat yourselves on the back–knives cut both ways.

If the gov'ment payed my way, I would have 22 kids also.Unfortunately, I was raised to be responsible.Gotta love LaQuita and her 13 kids running around your local Giant Eagle filling the cart to the brim...all paid by the state.

That's funny because race doesn't seem to stop the white Duggards from having 19 kids. If you can't support as many kids as you want, it isn't because of your own personal failures. Quite trying to blame your problems on other people.

It's the Duggar family and they have never been on gov't assistance. If you can take care of them have as many kids as you like, they are a blessing. If you aren't married and can't take care of them then stop sleeping around and focus on succeeding in this life. This article is another tool the media used to created hatred. 'Can't we all just get along?'

You would never have 22 probably cannot even have one because....you ...guys... are ... mostly .....STERILE. Now go run down and get in line now to go buy a black baby that you hope to retrain to be as white as he/she will never be–and tell yourself that the reason you adopted outside your own race was because you just wanted to love someone....and not because your race is going EXTINCT.

That will be a footnote by the other caption under "S" for whites–which says STERILE group–and the rest of mankind will remember the people who were "superior" but who eventually died out due to being infertile and not realizing that no matter what race they go out and adopt–they never change the fact that they genetically DIED OUT. Now laugh at that. LOL

A lot of white women can't have babies and having a baby with anything other than a white guy will not help the white race stay the "white race" it is not just that they want kids–they want to perpetuate their own kind.

Is it not remarkable that the very race that is complaining about minorities being here is responsible for us being here. Africans didn't come to the "New World" willingly. South American immigrants came because economic policies put in place by the "majority" law-makers create such an imbalance that their migration is inevitable. (BTW they are leaving since recent policies have helped their homeland economies improve). The MAJORITY wanted the minorities here to serve their needs and now they are reaping their just desserts!!

More importantly, how many of the white births are actually Pakistani, MIddle Eastern, White Hipanics, Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, Iranian, etc births? The fact is that in Europe the population was determined to be at ZERO white pop growth in 2004 and at NEGATIVE or below ZERO growth in 2006.

the same study that stated that said that the US white pop growth was above ZERO and was at about 2% at that time–BUT... that study added white hispanics, and other groups that had been redesignated as Caucasian into those stats–when removed (like they are for negative stats like crime rates or poverty) white pop growth is either at or near ZERO or below also. O pop growth means just enough babies are being born to replace the people who are dying –but negative means that not enough are being born to replace those who are dying.

Instead of stating this –this article talks about the increase in minority births but what it fails to say is that without adding in all the groups designated since 1978 as "Caucasian" for European descended whites in America the numbers are Negative.

One thing is certain,–no matter how numbers are finessed they do not change the genetic reality and at some point White Americans are going to wake up to this fact. BTW–groups were redesignated as Caucasian in hopes Whites would marry and assimilate with all the other groups thereby stabilizing and increasing their gene pool and stopping the decline.

When any organism has a finite pool of genetics, sooner or later it hits a point of stagnation after which anamolies and birth defects become more prominent or the species goes sterile or terminal–to offset this a gene pool must increase or be diverse–hence the redesignation of some races to Caucasian no matter what skin color they have.

The government is trying everything short of a bull horn telling whites to make babies or die out–if you cannot see that clue or notice the redesignation of nonwhites to Caucasian status or notice the dearth of white babies up for adoption or notice the lack of offspring and rush to adopt kids of other races–then you have your heads buried in the sand–go out–diversify–some races have already been reclassified just so white people can cohabit with them and still say they are with other whites–even if those people are black, brown or totally foreign to you–it is for the salvation of the white race–if you fail to diversify (or if other races reject you) genetically you WILL DIE OUT. THERE. I SAID WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS AFRAID TO SAY

My young daughter is half asian and half white. She was counted in the census as she was born in 2009. Since the census findings don't explicitly state mixed-race, I wonder whether they lumped her in the white or asian category? It's crazy to report on this by one-race per individual only, especially now when there are so many mixed race children.

You're daughter is considered WHITE. Asians are the latest race to be included into the mainstream just like the Jews, Poles, Greeks who at first were not considered as white. The only true whites in those days were AngloSaxon, French and German.

The only race that can never be "whitened" no matter socio economic status are blacks. One drop of black blood in ones system qualifies you as BLACK. That's the "one drop" rule.

Thanks everyone for replying. If this is correct then the percentage "white" in the census estimates would include a lot of mixed race children. That implies America is even less "white" than it seems, which means even more diversity overall.

It is still not late to fix this. We need to start an aggressive campaign to deport all illegals. If all illegals are deported then there will be a huge dent in their numbers. Without white people this country will be another Mexico. White people is what makes a country great.

when immigrants first came to america in the late eighteenth and nineteenth and twentieth century, they came here to work, to scratch and claw...they didnt expect handouts....not one...and they got none....they worked hard and moved themselves up as best they could so their children could maybe benefit....

today? they come here to suck off the system that they then love to hate...what a friggin disgrace.

ya, they fill up the universities alright with soon to be "academics" who hate america and do evertyhing they can to pass that on to the next generation....they come here for bio engineering courses and then go home to teach others how to build bombs...great that were teaching them....and whats with the muslim brotherhood having access to the white house and lobbying them? seems too cozy over there....LOL..whats next? sharia american style?

Beary you need to get out more. You may not realize this doing whatever it is you do but our large corporations, especially tech companies are full to the brim with immigrants (both naturalized citizens and H1-Bs).

I hate to say it, but 1 party rule is slightly better than 2. At least with only 1 party, whatever stupid thing they're trying to get done won't cost us billions while they fight about it like little kids.

VIVA LaRAZA!!!!!
Put on some mariachi music and let's celebrate the end of America and its Middle class!!!!
The exploding Hispanic population is draining our health care system, over burdening our schools, lowering our wages, destroying our class system and our politicians are too afraid to say any thing about it. In 2000 there were more people on food stamps and welfare in Puerto Rico than in the poorest state in the union..Mississippi. We the US taxpayers are financially keeping that welfare island afloat via welfare transfere payment. Not to mention all the narcotics they are flooding America with to destroy us. Like Rome America burns while our leaders fiddle.
La cucaracha...la cucaracha!!!

This article is a lie. Dont people think for yourself?? Quick, what ethnicity had more births than whites?? Answer: NONE!!! This article is more about Whites vs the Rest, and I beleive either way it doesnt matter. Ask the soldiers on the battlefield if it mattered what race their wounded/dead counterpart was, and if it changed anything. #STOP RACISM

I'm starting to wonder if so many people above are actually racist or if the country is becoming more "class-ist." The minorities being described with such vitriol sound more like the lower class than any specific race, given the descriptors used. Any of them could be applied to a poor white person on welfare as well.

I'm not sure this conversation would even happen if everyone was a moderately well-educated, working middle class person.

The REASON for the relative decline in "white" middle-class birth rates is that we cannot AFFORD to have more children, so we don't. On the other hand, lower-class minority don't pay for the support of their own children, let alone themselves, so they just keep having more as it increases the inflow of money.

To be honest I could care less because I am white and have two kids. But you see I can afford two children and provide a comfortable life for them and give them things and pay for school and daycare. A lot of minorities have kids for welfare purposes or religious or because they want large families that they can't take care of.

No not all whites are professionals....however define that. Well educated and don't really work and take credit for others hard work does that define a professional. Also not every latino is a professional, in fact they are the people who make cheeseburgers, and clean houses, and mow lawns, and do what ever cheap job they can find.

Yes, there are more white people on welfare in total, but they are less represented as a percentage of the population. Minorities have more people on welfare / public support relative to the percentage of the population they represent.

HEh just go over to rural america and you can see the amount of white teens with more than 4 or 5 Kids... Grow up and travel your own country and you will see the truth or is it just that you don't want to see the truth

I myself wanted a large family I couldn't take care of. But then I got deported. It was very sad. When I got back, the first thing my friends asked was, "Did you manage to have a large family you couldn't take care of?" And shamefully, I had to admit that I had not.

What we're watching in this comment thread here is a great deal of (often poorly articulated) expression of anxiety among White people who are finally facing the decline of their unearned social privilege. You did not hit a double, you were born on second base. This coming world is not discrimination, it's what the world has always been like for everyone else.

As an author recently put it: if life were a video game, being a straight, white male would be the lowest difficulty setting. And that's the stone truth. And it's clear that a lot of folks are terrified at the idea that that reality might ever change.

What really kicks these people in the shin is that they have to reconcile their low score on the lowest difficulty setting. Out of desperation, they fantasize about minorities having it so easy. While they go about their daily lives completely indifferent to hundreds of examples of white privilege, a single instance of any kind of minority perk sends them into a fit of rage.

Look at the comments on here. These folks are DESPERATE to depict minorities as having it so easy. It’s really the only explanation they can come up with to justify their general unhappiness with life.

I live in a racially diverse neighborhood. It is a beautiful thing to watch all of the children playing together with no regard for what color another child's skin is. We all watch out for one another and if anyone is a bigot or racist, they have hidden it well. It makes me sad to read the vitriol spewed from the minds of some of those that choose the "white-hooded" forum to be racist. It is always easy to be big and bad when no one can see or touch you. We live in a WORLD where whites are the miniority overall. Yes, America is the "melting pot" and because this land once belonged to the American Indians none of us regardless of our skin color should boast of being anything but appreciative. I have a rose garden full of roses of all different colors. They make my yard beautiful and not one single rose shade is prettier than or better than another. If only people could be like flowers, or like children before they get infected by adults that teach hate. If you believe in God, then you believe he created all of us, no matter what skin color we might be. If you hate another because of race, then you must hate the creator as well.

The cool thing about number usage is knowing how to manipulate the mind by using percentages when raw numbers are against you, and when to use raw numbers when the percentages are against you. Now, who came up with that numbers game and in what ways to they use it? Have fun figuring it out.

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